Monthly Archives: October 2013

The only upside I can fathom to being sick is that I hope to get over it BEFORE NaNoWriMo. I’ve given up on one story I wanted to finish this month. The deadline’s just a couple days away, and even … Continue reading →

How do you strike a balance between preparing and doing? One good thing about NaNoWriMo is that it gives the writer a defined time when they need to be writing. No longer plotting. No longer outlining. No longer cruising the … Continue reading →

During my first year of NaNoWriMo, I didn’t have a blog yet. My second year, I did all kinds of preparation, including finishing interviews and SciFi Q of the Day posts in advance. (By the way, I succeeded both those … Continue reading →

Goals! I haz them. I’m barely keeping up, but I’ll make it. This round my goals are NaNo-centric. October is for NaNo prep, and there’s only one week left. I’m not sure I’m going to get the submissions finished that … Continue reading →

SciFi Question of the Day: Could You Make the Kessel Run in Less Than Twelve Parecs? Facebook Answers: MissKat Orta I went around the Maw black hole cluster to save distance. Melissa Conway No, I could not because a true parsec … Continue reading →

My ROW80 goals for this round are to prepare for NaNoWriMo in October, win NaNoWriMo in November, then recover from NaNoWriMo in December. Last year I failed NaNoWriMo. Part of this was because I had a submission deadline for something else I wanted to work on … Continue reading →

Where’s the Kaboom? There Was Supposed to Be An Earth-Shattering Kaboom! Facebook Answers: Linda A. Garvey Marvin the …..when he is trying to blow up the Earth… Booboo Wilde It was actually an boson-shattering kaboom, and the chain reaction is taking a … Continue reading →

Life would be so much easier if I could get advance warning of chaos. If I could just plan for it… …well, it would be less chaotic. Now for my ROW80 Goals post! The last round (AKA the NaNo round) … Continue reading →